After seeing a very good winter scene by isric earlier today, and of course having just gotten a bit of snow here in stuttgart I have been *inspired*.

Of course, the primary drive was my need for a solid background for my next work with the ROAC.

Anyways, started doodling and here's what I had about 2 hours later. (Yes, I work slow)

Oh yes, one thing of note. I have no noteworthy painting experience, and have NEVER done a landscape (which it is right now) so PLEASE point out any errors that I have made. I get the odd feeling that there is something *just not* right with this thing.

*Edit*

Oh yeah, forgot to mention a couple of things.

First of all, happy new years everyone! Woo-hoo. Second ... oh heck that was all.

Looks really good for you first landscape! I don't know what kinda feel you're going for but there're a couple things to think about if you're looking to make this fairly realistic.

First, the rocky areas...if you take a photograph and use the color picker to choose random colors within a rocky area you'll see that everything isn't a straight grey color. There're lots of subtle blues, reds, browns and sometimes greens that are making the greys seem cooler or warmer. Try making a pure grey color and then upping the blue value up by a few numbers or maybe red...experiment.

Do this with the trees as well. You'll probably find that there are many shades of green to yellow-green to brown in trees and adding some subtle differences in the color of the trees will help add to the realism...just make sure to add more detail to the foreground than the background.

Also, colors lose saturation and value as they recede into the distance so objects in the background will be made mostly of desaturated blues, reds and greens. Again this is something I noticed by taking a photo of a landscape and just using the color picker I started picking out colors from the foreground and background. Even though the hills in the back were all dirt and green shrubs all the colors I was picking from that area were very desaturated blues, purples and reds.

Hope this helped some. It's really a very good start you've got there man, keep working at it.